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No. 223,915. Patented Jan. 27,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BURRETT w. HORTON, OF NEW YORK, NY.

CHEESE-BANDAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,915, dated January 27, 1880.

i Application filed June 19, 1879.

.State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cheese-Bandages and I do hereby declare the following be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to cheese-bandages; and it consists in a cheese-bandage made of a woven fabric having more picks to the inch in the filling than in the warp, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, Figure l is a perspective view of the tubular cheese-cloth before Fig. 2 is a similar-view, showing the cloth cut partially into bandages; and Fig. 3 shows one completed bandage.

The fabric of which I make my cheese-bandages is to be woven with about one-fifth more picks (more or less) to the inch in the filling than in the warp. For instance, if the warp has, say, forty picks or threads, the filling should have, say, forty-eightq'ncks,theobject of which is to give the completed bandage more strength around, or circumferentially, where the greatest strain will come in pressing.

The number of picks is immaterial, only so that the filling will have more than the warp.

A,as shown in Fig.1. Thus the filling-threads will run circumferentially around the roll or crosswise of the bandage, and the warp-threads longitudinally of the roll or lengthwise of the bandage. This tubular fabric is fed along until it reaches a cutter, which cuts the fabric into bands B B of the desired length for cheeses of different height.

It will readily be seen that in the bands or bandages thus formed the greatest strength is around, or circumferentially, where the strain will come in pressing the cheese, while not so much strength is required up and down.

The band is placed inside of the cheesehoop and the curd put in, after which it is pressed in the usual manner.

It is obvious that after the woven fabric has been placed around the calenderroll it may be drawn therefrom, its edges sewed together, and the tubular fabric cut into suitable cheesebandages by hand.

I am aware that hydraulic hose made-of woven material of single thickness, in which the weft strands are the same material and made thicker and stronger than the warpstrands, have heretofore been employed, and I therefore lay noclaim to such invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl i As a new article of manufacture, a tubular cheese-bandage of about the same Width as a cheese-cake, and made of a woven fabric having more picks to the inch in the filling than in the warp, said filling running around the cheesebandage, so as to run circumferentially around the cheese-cake, and having its edges sewed together, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of June, 1879.

BURRETT W. HORTON.

Witnesses:

F. H. ScHoT'r, J. G. TASKER. 

